When you start becoming a pop star, you think, Hold on a second, maybe my life is different now - maybe all… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
Al Qaeda attacked the U.S.S. Cole and bombed several U.S. embassies in East Africa in the late 1990s. We knew who did… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
I just realized, sometime early on in college, that I wanted to be a philosopher. I basically decided that I wanted to… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
“So," he called to her back, "Just out of curiosity, you know, purely conversation and all, at what age will you be… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The experience that a publication creates for its audience is the very essence of that publication's brand - and without deep engagement,… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
You're trying to make the language work, and your subconscious is being allowed to make the deeper, more profound connections. It's much… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
“activity is not the same as engagement. In too many classrooms, teachers worry about having the students active rather than having the… — Daisy Christodoulou Copy Share Image
What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
“A lack of engagement sends the message that you may not care, are not interested, are too busy, or that the other… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I also draw strength from so many people that I meet through my speaking engagements and my life and when I feel… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
I lived in China for 9 years straight. I saw how my Chinese friends benefited and gained much more freedom to determine… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
But the frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is one thing for the institution to offer space for serious engagement, in thought and action, and to encourage free and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone.… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
If the practices and processes inside a company don't drive the execution of values, then people don't get it. The question is,… — Lou Gerstner Copy Share Image
“Flow is engagement on steroids. Flow is that state of being in which time stands still, you’re totally engaged in an activity,… — Dave Evans Copy Share Image
The matters I am talking about regarding the ports. That matter has been discussed with the unions, and agreed, and therefore there… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
What do we know about autism in 2013? Autism symptoms generally emerge before age three and usually much earlier, often as language… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another.… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“She was persuaded that under every disadvantage of disapprobation at home, and every anxiety attending his profession, all their probable fears, delays,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
We need to learn to listen to what the people need and want and not try to impose on them a whole… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
When I accept an invitation for a public speaking engagement, my purpose is to share the TOMS story and our giving mission.… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
The five rings of marriage: there's the engagement ring and the wedding ring, but there are three others, too: the boring, the… — Steve Trotter Copy Share Image
Often confused with shyness, introversion does not imply social reticence or discomfort. Rather than being averse to social engagement, introverts become overwhelmed… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him… — Frank B. Gilbreth Jr Copy Share Image
They fought their first action in March of 1775. Embarked on eight small ships, they sailed to the Bahamas and captured a… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
You can have these fake engagements, these virtual engagements that substitute for actual engagements. You don't have to participate, you can hit… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Cats and their owners are on a private, exclusive loop of affection. Thus cats have become symbolic of a community eschewed and… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
The one thing I'm quite critical of Hillary Clinton for, and it obviously hurt her, is that at some level, the Clintons… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image